Colostrum,
transfer factor and your immune system

What is
colostrum, what is transfer factor and how do they benefit your immune
system?

As you
move along in life, you bump into various bacteria, germs, viruses and
fungus particles.

You
catch a cold usually because some virus or
germ has entered your system and your body was unable to get rid of
the germ before it multiplied and gave you clogged
sinuses, sniffles and a runny nose.

If your
immune system is functionning well, that bacteria may get inside your
body but your immune system attacks the bug before it can multiply.

Antibodies
manufactured by your immune system

The first
time one of those bugs enters your body, they can cause you to get sick.
But your immune system is working hard to manufacturer 'anti-germs' (also
called 'antibodies') which attack the bugs. It takes your immune system
quite a while to do this. In some cases it may take up to 10 to 14 days
to manufacture the new antibodies. Your temperature may already be high
because of the infection.

When the bacteria
invades your body, they begin to multiply at the site. Why not? There is
plenty of food, warmth and it's dark. As the bacteria multiply, there would
exist a very slight swelling in the infected area and the immune system
starts its work - recognizing the bacteria as harmful. Immune cells cause
small blood vessels near the 'clump' of multiplying bacteria to dilate and
widen. The increased blood flow leads to warmth and redness.

As the
antibodies start to destroy the bugs, your temperature will head lower.
Do not stop there - this is the primary mistake of most antibiotic administration.
People quit too soon - all the bugs are not yet killed. If the antibiotic
is stopped at this point, the bugs which are not yet killed are now not
likely to be killed by the same antibiotic and you need a new antibiotic.
There is such a constant demand for new antibiotics that every drug
company wants to get on this gravy train.

Stopping
the antibiotic too soon will probably leave some of the bugs still alive,
and they are now resistant to the antibiotic - so the same antibiotic
won't work next time.

Once
your immune system has created a very specific 'antibody' just for
this one bug, you then have at least a few of those 'anti-germs' in
your body for the rest of your life. Your body is capable of recognizing
an incredible 100,000,000 different types of bugs. The electron microscope
picture to the right is a macrophage. The macrophage is a 'general
purpose' antibody - it eats any type of bug. There are also 'specific'
antibodies, which attack only one kind of bug.

The next
time that same bug (more technically called an 'antigen') enters your
body, those anti-germs (antibodies) which were created the first time,
are ready to attack instantly. You don't have to wait for the body to
start manufacturing those antibodies. Some of those antibodies start attacking
the invading bugs immediately while the body then starts making more.
You might not need more if the first defense was enough to kill the invading
bugs.

It's important
to understand that your immune system does NOT recognize toxic
metals in your body. Your immune system does not handle such problems
- it only handles 'bugs', organic entities.

Your immune
system does NOT handle toxic lead or
mercury in your body. That is another
job - for heavy metals detoxification,
not for a stronger immune system. However, toxic metals such as toxic
lead, can cause a tremendous increase in the number of free
radicals in your body and they can, in turn, cause cancer,
heart disease and other diseases. Once
the toxic metal causes cancer, then the cancer is subject to control by
the immune system.

Ideally,
it's best not to let invading bugs enter your body. The next step, once
you have allowed those bugs to enter, is to get rid of them. Your immune
system is your first line of defense.

Your immune
system goes after 'organic' things - mostly alive, like germs, but it
also goes after protein substances which are not alive. While viruses
are not alive, your immune system should be able to handle any of them.
The same goes with parasites and fungus problems. You will find that the
traditional medical paradigm almost completely ignores the immune system
- the thinking is that the only solution for a sore throat is an antibiotic.

So, every
time you get a new bug, your body has to go through this fairly slow process
of making a new anti-germ for this particular bug. If it does take 10-14
days to make the new antibody, that is how long the bug has had to swarm
through your body, leaving little quickly-growing families everywhere.

An army
of antibodies

After
several years, you can see that you would have a whole army of antibodies,
each one different from the other, each one having been used at least
once in your body to handle a particular invading bug.

One would
think that the older you get, the better your immune system becomes. After
all, your immune system is gradually accumulating all sorts of new antibodies
so that by the time you are old, your immune system would be ready to
attack almost any bug that ever existed.

However,
the fact is that as people get older, their immune system is often also
going downhill. As scientists studied this problem, they found that one
particular part of the immune system seemed to suffer the most as we age.

It is
the mechanism through which the body RECOGNIZES an invading bug and matches
that bug with what antibodies are already present in the body ready to
fight to defend the body. The watchdog is constantly looking for invading
bugs. Sometimes that watchdog doesn't recognize a bug as being the same
as a previously-encountered bug.

If bug
'X' first attacked Nancy when she was 8 years old, Nancy developed an
antibody for bug 'X'. Then, when Nancy was 22 years old, and that same
bug 'X' came along, her immune system recognized the bug instantly and
sent in the 'X' troops to fight. This was a short fight - Nancy never
even knew that she had some invading bug inside her body. It was eliminated
quickly.

Now, Nancy
is 65 years old, and bug 'X' enters her body again. This time, even though
she has some antibodies specifically designed for bug 'X', the immune system
doesn't recognize that this is bug 'X' and thinks that this is a new bug
- Bug 'X2'.

Nancy's
body starts making antibodies for Bug 'X2'. That would be fine, because
the mechanism for making antibodies is still working properly and the
body will actually make new antibodies for bug 'X', even though it had
done already this years ago, and even though there might even exist a
supply of them already available. But because the body was slow in RECOGNIZING
that it was bug 'X', the bug got a head-start before her immune system
could make enough new antibodies.

A declining
immune system in old age

So, what
you have is old age, and a declining immune system.

So elderly
people need some help in recognizing those invading germs and there has
previously been nothing which would do that. Older people are vulnerable
to invading bugs not because they don't have the antibodies to fight off
the infection, or flu, or cancer
but because their body is too slow in recognizing which troops to send
in to battle, so it makes new ones , slowly.

Because
of antibiotics use, it turns out that anyone who has often been sick
can have this immune system recognition problem. So, in addition to
older people, people of any age can have their immune system lose
the ability to recognize the invading germs - and waste time trying
to create a new antibody when that same bug has been fought and defeated
before. What is the standard medical solution to these infections?
Antibiotics.

So, anyone
can be vulnerable who has had lots of illnesses. They often get antibiotics
to 'cure' the sickness.

What else
can cause this immune system recognition problem? Taking too many antibiotics,
or taking the wrong kind, or taking them too long or too short. Doctors
know this to be true - that the bugs become resistant to antibiotics.
The drug companies then develop
NEW and better antibiotics. But, we now have 'super bugs' in our world
which don't respond to ANY antibiotic - and these super bugs were actually
created because of poor use of antibiotics.

Who else
has this immune system recognition problem?

Let's
switch gears for a moment, and consider one of the most vulnerable people
you might know - a new-born baby.

Find out
how a mother transfers her immunity to her new born baby on page
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